text:
- We can think of it like an extension of the earliest programming models we ever dealt with - subroutines and functions
- We don't have to get all snarled up in worrying about parallel processing/multi-tasking and other hard to debug kinds of models
- We can break up problems into conveniently sized chunks by some kind of hierarchic decomposition
- All languages support the model intrinsically.
Does this mean that it is the best way? Perhaps for some problems, but surely not for all. I see a subroutine or function as being a rather surly, uncommunicative programming equivalent of a slob sitting in a chair, swilling beer and only responding when he feels like doing so. Very good at doing one thing at a time, easy to discover (after all who can miss the chair, beer can and TV remote).
This model is so dominant that we have even simulated it on top of asynchronous protocols. So even in a system that doesn't support request/response directly (e.g. an asynchronous, message based system) we still allow for the same semantics, but this time fudging them to use pairs of asynchronous messages. Changing the transport doesn't really change the programming model. We still think in RPC terms.
Enter SOA and we often have the same view. This time instead of an RPC, we sometimes refer to a "Service Call". Immediately we should be on the defensive. Call implies request/response. Should that be what our services do? Well, of course sometimes they should.
Now let's look at things from a different perspective. In an Event Driven Architecture, when something happens, the component that realizes something has happened feels the need to communicate this goodness to anyone who will listen. Some listeners will take action as a result. It is almost a gossiping model, a model where as soon as information is available, it is able to be shared. Not only does sharing take place, but it is absolutely impossible for the originator or broadcaster of the information to control what happens to it. It is out in the aether with all sorts of actions taking place as a result. Some of the actions might be beneficial, some not.
So here, we have a much lighter weight, less surly architecture an approach where the actions are distinguished from the notifications, where the actors are actively listening and making decisions for themselves. An architecture that exhibits autonomy and a loosely coupled style. Of course the trouble with a gossiping style is that a large amount of information is made available, only some of which will be acted on. So it is very "chatty" Chattiness in IT systems correlates well with increased resource consumption. In constrained systems (especially those that are network or disk constrained) increasing resource consumption can have a large, and negative impact on the cost of doing business.
In the EDA model, information "publishers" and "consumers" are constantly doing other things. They are true multi-taskers, ever prioritizing their activities, deciding whether to wait for more information or whether to act immediately. Capable of acting and absorbing information at the same time, making complex decisions largely autonomously. In other words, there is less friction in this style of interaction.
Information, of course, doesn't need to be acted on immediately. A useful tidbit might be recognized a long time after some other tidbit, making a situation clear. The arrival of the final tidbit can trigger a complex set of actions, relying on information disassociated from the original event, but somehow dependent on it.
Bottom line, we need to understand when it is appropriate to use one style or another. Sometimes it is good for a bunch of slobs to hang out, grunt and drink beer. At other times a more nimble, more overlapping, less controlling approach can deliver systems that function more smoothly.


text:
Chief rabbi of Carlsruhe; born at Minsk in 1754; died at Carlsruhe July 23, 1837. He studied under his father, Aryeh Löb, rabbi of Metz; and when the latter had become blind he assisted him in conducting his yeshibah or rabbinical college. In 1783 Asher was elected rabbi of Niederwerrn, and in 1785 rabbi of Wallerstein. When in 1809 the Grand Duke of Baden organized the Jewish congregations of his country upon the Napoleonic model, Asher was elected member of the consistory and chief rabbi ("Oberrath" and "Landrabbiner") of the grand duchy. He accepted these positions in 1810, and occupied them until his death, declining a call to Paris and, later, one to Metz. Asher was a strict Talmudist of the old school, and very orthodox in his views, though at the same time tolerant of those of others.
In his last years his health was very precarious, and the work of the rabbinate was done by his assistant, Elias Willstätter. Shortly before his death he sent various manuscripts dealing with rabbinical subjects to Wilna; but only some responsa were published—in a work of his father, "She'elot u-Teshubot Sha'agat Aryeh ha-Ḥadashot," Wilna, 1873. One of his sons, who adopted the family name "Ascher," was rabbi of Bühl, and died there Feb. 20, 1838.
- Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1837, pp. 252, 260.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The easiest dating strategy for individuals with herpes is to locate potential matches on the dating website specifically for people who have herpes as Two Horny Women well as other sexually transmitted diseases.
Do your best to produce your partner feel even more comfortable. This approach work by 50 % ways; because you're spending more hours making your lover comfortable, you'll be less focused on your individual nervous feelings and surroundings, therefore Women Wanting Sex being less pressurized of these situations. The second method in which this method works is actually showing your spouse that you simply care a lot about their overall happiness too, thus making that individual feel more stimulating as they don't worry much about whether that suits you them you aren't. Generally, when someone is intending to make a different one happy, is because like them.
I've seen it over and over nevertheless... OVER again - happy couples who will be hopelessly in love, would be the lucky few that continue in Horny Indian Women LOVE, (plus lust) forever. (or LIFETIMES, based on what you believe)
2. One of the keys in mastering the best way to flirt with girls is realize whenever a chance presents itself. In the course of the conversation, your ex may mention something about her place like "recently, I just moved right into a new apartment" Horny Rich Women or "my browser in your house has not yet proved helpful properly for a while and I don't understand how to repair it".
There isn't lots of gaming site focusing about the love subject, but definitely did an admirable job that will put these love-filled games together, you do not wish to miss it.
There are a number of fine resources where males and females will get good dating advice. Single people in many cases are searching for possible ways to relate with one another over a more romantic level. Men and women do communicate differently so it will be crucial that you understand how to put your better foot forward on the first date.
A free dating site provides an ideal potential for whoever has been out of your dating scene for some Horney Women period. Perhaps you have stood a relationship that went sour so you wish to start meeting new and different people away from the old circle of friends that knew you as part of one or two. If you have suffered the loss of a spouse or bride and you are prepared to move on, energy sources advantage of the slower pace of your Internet relationship. There is time to get to know others and enjoy their perspective. If you choose to escalate the connection later, that's okay too.
Now, one which just successfully reach that desired state, you have to accept cover some legwork. Building sexual tension cannot happen in a flick of your switch, it's really a progressive process.
And because boomers expect technology to work for them rather than they need to give your very best to get down technology, there isn't Milfs any reason can be expected anything only a continued surge in popularity in senior dating websites.
Christian single women of any age may use online dating sites services to locate a casual friend, acquaintance or potential soul mate. Internet matchmaking is just about the primary means for singles all over the world in order to connect, just like any stigma attached with Internet daters have long since passed. There are a number of highly reputable free services available today.
Also, it is not to make you're feeling you should turn a blind eye, or that you're just being insecure or paranoid. But remember; Slow down and try to logically prepare the next steps, while staying tuned in to your internal radar/intuition together with your set of personal ethics.
Nevertheless, in a very lighter vein, online dating may be fun so long when you tend not to disclose your individual details unless you are serious. All a similar, the icing on the cake is really the 2nd part with the soulmate Mature Women theory, which states that there's every possibility of one meeting many soulmate in the identical lifetime! We will pass any particular one, with all the best of our wishes!
Pay plenty of awareness of your partner and be sure to register any kind of comments they generate that are either suspicious or contradictory. Do not rush into anything. You do not have to fulfill up until both of you feel comfortable. As you talk, you'll both need to establish a direct rapport together as a way to gain the trust that is essential for an actual world meeting This is one of the special elements of online dating sites. The basis of trust is there and before you've Mature Horny Women really met, therefore it seems being training well, you are a few steps ahead of that you may be should you'd initially met within the flesh ).
You read their profile, you contact him/her as you like what you read, you think they're cute, you exchange emails forwards and Married Women Cheat backwards, you reach know one another, blah blah blah, you produce a deep relationship. When you finally opt to meet directly... it's as promised; fireworks; you're overjoyed. Online Christian dating works. Let me tell you a super quick story.
If she's still mad at you following your break-up, it's advisable never to push the problem. Instead, as hard as it might sound, target yourself for about a few weeks. Pick up the pieces and get the life into order. You'll want her to miss you, and you can't accomplish that in the event you keep contacting her and begging her back!
However, for people who are limited in terms of the times of day they need Meet Rich Women to put in online dating, speed dating services truly deliver an excellent and excellent benefit.
No appear strategy you employ, you're bound to discover a site that can cater effectively to the Sexy Horny Women needs you have. Follow these tips to make use of the Net to get the love of the life.
When you get a woman you would want to date, read her profile and choose a thing that genuinely interests you. Then make a comment regarding it. Don't tell her how pretty she Horny Older Women actually is or simply how much you've got in accordance, just be platonic conversation. The fact that you are curious about her like a woman is obviousA� and doesn't require to be stated via email. Acting chill will demonstrate her that you just aren't a desperate horn-ball like every other guy who may have emailed her soon, and this will leave her with something concrete to retort returning to.
Please donrrrt do not understand. I am not saying that infatuation isn't good. As a matter of fact, it's very pleasurable. You can not prevent your self from being infatuated sometimes, since infatuation is usually biological. My point is which you are able to recognize it for what it is in the event it strikes. Don not refer to it love-refer to it as infatuation.
Most people never explore in greater detail what's important to them in a relationship. When someone skillfully Older Horny Women elicits these items conversationally, three powerful things could happen.
Picture this: you're manager inside a company with several people on your side. One of them is a major flirt, on the extent that some Hornywomen individuals have come to one to complain about it person's behaviour. How do you handle the situation?
We value things more if we've worked for this. This is a fact, and when women realize that they're getting out of with free drinks every time they go clubbing, they aren't going stop accepting drinks simply because it's wrong. Actually, it is not even wrong. So make a lady work with your attention, let her buy a drink instead. Automatically, your value will rise. She will see you being a guy with a higher value, a harder guy to please, a man she would like more, simply because she bought a drink. Ha ha - this is fun stuff yes? I'm dead serious! Do not buy her a drink, even if she asks - that is a test! She knows any guy are able a drink anyway - you should operate against her.
Meeting women for some guys looks like it's construction action to take. But permit me to assure you, it's not as hard when you think. Listen close guys, as a woman, i want to encourage you. The majority with the stuff you fear won't ever happen!
However, if you walk up to woman with confidence and have her something naturally, she'll respond nicely and after a couple of minutes, she'll are the one wanting to Erotic Women pick you up... Nice eh'! The fact is, that most men gets nervous once they approach women and the only method you will get reduce that anxiety would be to approach as numerous women as is possible without taking into consideration the outcome... So rule #01 would be to stop taking into consideration the outcome... It doesn't matter if you get her number or not so you shouldn't care less if she likes you or otherwise. Try to keep the same mentality while you would in the event you were asking someone for directions or time... Just be yourself. Now, let's discuss what you can say to a woman if you want to begin a conversation and if you don't need to work with a cheesy pickup line.
So the first golden rule is always to ensure your profile is just not boring. Ideally, it ought to be an well-written and stimulating bit of text, perhaps five paragraphs roughly. A boring profile is one that has almost no information, is poorly written, or perhaps very generic and therefore uninteresting.
Horny Women Newman Lake WA | Horny Women Black Diamond WA


text:
Gamers are a social bunch, despite the negative connotations that may currently exist with the term "gamer". For some reason, there's a belief that gamers enjoy spending time alone in the basement playing games in the dark, while it's actually quite the opposite. In fact, with the industry's emphasis on the multiplayer aspect of games, gamers are more social than ever. And until now there hasn't really been a place for us to migrate to.
There are social aspects to many sites, but that spans as far as creating a profile and posting comments on articles. Gameswise is a new website that heavily emphasizes the social aspect of video games. At it's core, it is a social network for people who love games — with a ton of helpful game information thrown in.
Gameswise operates as a wiki, providing plenty of useful information about video games. If there happens to be no information about a game you are looking for then you, the user, can fix that by editing it yourself. That hopefully helps the next person, like you, looking for that same information. It's all about creating a tight-knit community of gamers looking out for each other.
To assist in creating a community, Gamewise employs several tactics aimed at encouraging like-minded gamers to connect. When you first sign up and create an account, you are required to rate at least 20 games. Taking your answers into account, it then matches you with several other gamers with similar interests. I'm not exactly sure of the formula being used, but apparently it's pretty accurate — for instance, it matched me with my brother. Now THAT'S pretty impressive.
Once you are connected with your core friends, you can engage in discussions and conversations. Each user has their own "wall" where they can share thoughts, start a discussion, or write reviews and articles. You friends will then see what you wrote and have the option to like it and comment on it.
This isn't the first time we've seen a website attempt to expand upon the social element of video games, but this is one of the best we've seen for a while. Apparently, gamers agree as the site already has over 75,000 user created accounts.
Speaking of social elements in websites, GameZone has some big changes coming this year included a complete site redesign with an even bigger emphasis on social networking and user-generated content — similar to Gameswise. Our beta should be launching soon so be sure to check back frequently.


text:
Graduate Student Association
What is the GSA?
The Graduate Student Association provides professional development and social networking opportunities for graduate students in Arts and Humanities.
Website: http://utdgsa.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/utdgsa
Twitter: http://twitter.com/utdgsa
Email: [email protected]
Where are we?
Most of our meetings take place in the Graduate Student Commons (JO 3.930 - ask one of us for the code). The Commons has a fridge, microwave, coffee maker as well as couches, tables, and a functioning PC with internet access.
The GSA has representatives on administration committees, presents student concerns to the administration, and seeks to inform students about official goings-on, such as changes in the program, TA hiring conditions, etc.
Monthly Informational Meetings
Each month the GSA hosts an informational meeting open to all graduate students in the School of Arts and Humanities. Each meeting will include information about some key aspect of the different A&H graduate programs, such as the foreign language requirement, the research and creative portfolio alternatives, preparing for exam fields, and other topics of interest.
Dates/times for the monthly meetings are listed in the GSA calendar, available on our organization website.
Fall/Spring Mixers
Each semester the GSA hosts a social/mixer for new and returning students. All graduate students, faculty, and staff in the School of Arts and Humanities are welcome to attend.
RAW: Graduate Student Conference
Each spring the GSA hosts a graduate student conference. RAW ("Research, Arts, and Writing") provides graduate students the opportunity to share their work with their colleagues and professors in a formal conference setting.
Graduate students from any school or institution are encouraged to submit their work.
Details about RAW can be found in the Call For Papers (CFP), published in October of each year.
For more information:
Website: http://utdgsa.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/utdgsa
Twitter: http://twitter.com/utdgsa
Email: [email protected]


text:
To visit the world's most extensive and significant exhibition on the history and technology behind the Zeppelin airship you can arrive by road, rail or even water.
The Zeppelin Museum is located in the former harbour train station in central Friedrichshafen, right on the edge of Lake Constance. The museum hosts cultural events and regularly changing exhibitions throughout the year, as well as special functions and themed guided tours during the winter.
Opening times:
May-October: daily 10am-6pm; November-April: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Dwa przydatne skróty klawiszowe do powiększania i zmniejszania strony w przeglądarce:
Powiększ: +
Zmniejsz: +
Dalsze wskazówki znajdziesz w swojej przeglądarce po kliknięciu ikony:


text:
4th Annual RCSX Wraps Up
DAYTONA - Kicking off Daytona Bike week festivities, Sunday and Monday hosted nearly 1,000 entries at the historical Daytona International Speedway for the 4th Annual Monster Energy Ricky Carmichael Daytona Amateur Supercross, sanctioned by AMA. A full slate of amateur classes-ranging from 50cc all the way to Vet and Pro classes-hit the historic Daytona Supercross track just one day after the fastest pros in the world for two days of amateur racing.
Following Saturday's Daytona Supercross by Honda, this event brought some of the sport's biggest industry names and sponsors to hang around and scout the up and coming talent of the amateur motocross circuit. Sunday morning started the weekend off with practice and heat races, while Monday crowned 32 champions and $3,200 in Motorcycle-Superstore.com Holeshot Awards on the historic grounds of Daytona International Speedway. The-Greatest-of-All-Time, Ricky Carmichael, was on site all weekend long, awarding the amateur champions and offering photo opportunities while playing host to Monday's podium celebrations.
The nearly perfect Florida weather made for ideal track conditions on the Daytona Supercross track and the exciting bar-to-bar racing followed suit with some of the biggest names of amateur racing in attendance. Florida's Jordan Bailey had a successful weekend in the Mini divisions, taking home a championship in the 85cc (9-13) class and fourth overall in Super Mini (12-16). Some of his biggest competition came from Brazilian native Enzo Lopes, who finished second and seventh places respectively, and Pennsylvania's Broc Papi went home with third and eighth places overall. Florida's Raymyller Alves topped a stacked field in the Super Mini (12-16) class, while Michigan's Joey Crown and Maryland's Tyler Kirschner each grabbed a podium finish in the class.
The A/Pro Sport divisions also brought out some of the top amateur talent as Florida's very own RJ Hampshire grabbed the win in both 450 A/Pro Sport and College (17-24), also taking fourth in the 250 A/Pro Sport class. Other heavy hitters included Suzuki rider Jace Owen, who grabbed a pair of seconds in the A classes, Kawasaki Team Green's Cody Chisholm - who took third and fourth overall, and Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green's Thomas Covington, who finished the weekend with a championship in 250A/Pro Sport and third place finish in 450A/Pro Sport.
The Women and Girls classes saw some of the most exciting racing of the weekend as well. Yamaha rider Kaitlyn Morrow topped the Women's (14+) division, with Kylie Fasnacht and Mackenzie Tricker rounded out the highly contested podium battle. In the Girls (9-13) class, it was Florida's Jazzmyn Canfield out front after a close battle with North Carolina's Jordan Jarvis who finished second overall for the day, while Pennsylvania's Jamie Astudillo rounded out the podium in the Girls class.
Kawasaki Team Green riders dominated the Vet and Senior divisions with riders like John Grewe, Mike Treadwell and Earl May, but Suzuki rider Barry Carsten held his own with a win in the Senior A 40+ class and a pair of seconds in the 35+ and 45+ divisions. Grewe landed wins in both the 35+ and 45+ classes, while finishing atop the podium in the 40+ division. Treadwell went 1-2-3 in the 30+, 35+ and 40 and May finished the weekend with two fourths and a third amongst a highly competitive Vet class field.
To find full results from the 4th Annual Monster Energy Ricky Carmichael Daytona Amateur Supercross, please visit www.racedaytona.com.


text:
Martin Luther, Johann Sebastian Bach and Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia are some of the great names associated with Eisenach, the home of Wartburg Castle, on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest.
Wartburg Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, proudly occupies a hilltop and is visible for miles around. The castle has a late-Romanesque inner ward. Luther found refuge here in 1522 under the pseudonym of 'Squire George' and translated the New Testament into German. He knew Eisenach well, having been a Latin scholar at St. George's School from 1498 to 1501. An exhibition about this formative period can be seen at the house where he lodged with the Cotta family, now the Luther House.
Luther is not Eisenach's only famous figure. Johann Sebastian Bach was born here in 1685 – and Eisenach is home to the world's first museum about this great baroque composer. Another attraction is the student fraternity monument, which honours those who campaigned for freedom and a unified Germany in the 19th century. Eisenach is on the Rennsteig hiking trail and close to Hainich National Park, with many leisure activities on the doorstep.
Две полезни комбинации от клавиши за мащабиране в браузъра:
Увеличаване: +
Намаляване: +
По-нататъшна помощ ще получите от доставчика на браузъра чрез щракване върху иконата:


text:
2 robberies reported minutes apart
Police are investigating two Tuesday morning robberies that happened less than three miles apart.
Police were called to the 99 Cent Store neat 42nd and Redman streets around 10 a.m. They said the robber displayed a firearm and fled east on foot with an undetermined about of money.
The man was described as black, 6 feet tall wearing all black.
Thirty minutes later, police were called to the L402 store near 62nd Street and Ames Avenue to investigate an armed robbery. A store employee said two men got away with money and fled on foot.
Both robbers were described as black men, one wearing all black, the other wearing a red hooded sweatshirt.
Police have not said whether the robberies are connected.
Anyone with information on the case should call a detective at 402-444-5652. If you want to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward, call Crime Stoppers at 402-444-7867.


text:
The First Lady
First Lady Visits Department of Education
By Maria Glod
In the first stop of a planned series of visits to federal agencies, first lady Michelle Obama went to the Department of Education today to energize workers by announcing: "I am a product of your work."
During a 10 minute speech with a pep rally atmosphere, Obama plugged the president's stimulus plan, which would pay to renovate thousands of schools, add funding for preschool for disadvantaged children and increase federal dollars for Pell Grants for college students. She said the infusion of cash would prevent teacher layoffs and help children in poverty and those with disabilities.
"This is a good thing to see -- this department fired up and ready to go," Obama said as the crowd of about 350, the maximum allowed under fire code violations, cheered and used their cell phones to snap photos.
"The Department of Education is going to be at the forefront of many of the things that we have to do in this administration and we're going to need that energy in these times of economic challenge," she said.
Michelle Obama also noted the administration's support of innovate approaches such as charter schools and turnaround programs intended to make sweeping changes in long-struggling schools. "There's a lot of work to do, and we're going to need you," she said.
Career staff at the department said it was the first time, as far as they were aware, that a first lady had addressed employees there. Obama appeared on stage with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, her longtime friend and former Chicago schools chief executive. The two were joined by 17 long-time career workers who, together, had logged about 600 years total.
"It's like a rock concert, and I had a front row seat," said Juliette Rizzo, director of exhibits, event planning and agency-wide outreach. "I loved what she said about being a product of our work."
Posted at 4:55 PM ET on Feb 2, 2009
| Category:
The First Lady
Share This: Technorati | Tag in Del.icio.us | Digg This
Previous: Gibbs Continues Obama Defense of Daschle | Next: Clinton Sworn in as Secretary of State
Get This Widget >>
Please email us to report offensive comments.
"Better to fight them over there, than over here or to pur it down a rat hole on 'social programs' that have no added-value, mah friend."
ZZZZZZZZZ... oh, puh-leeze, poster (with the pretentious. overly long name): Do you really think your cliched talking points from Sean Hannity's show impresses anyone?
Back to the drawing board for you, sir.
Posted by: vegasgirl1 | February 3, 2009 1:36 PM
>>>Zodwa sez- How much was spent in Iraq? I would rather have trillions be spent on what I see on American soil? Money was wasted in Iraq. Our tax payer money.
What, more money for welfare??? More money for reconstruction efforts from a terrorist attack?
Better to fight them over there, than over here or to pur it down a rat hole on "social programs" that have no added-value, mah friend.
Posted by: Computer_Forensics_Expert_Computer_Expert_Witness | February 2, 2009 11:09 PM
Evidence points to the likelihood that "Diannne721" is the product of a paid disinformation troll.
ALL of us may even be paying "her."
Which would be illegal.
That doesn't appear to phase these types.
Mr. Holder, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Blair, and yes -- you, too, Mssrs. Gates and Mueller: You must do your duty.
First, ban radiation weapons that are being deployed to police nationwide, and which (strong evidence indicates) already are being used to wage a "multi-agency action" -- a stealth war on innocents who have been deemed political and social "enemies."
Then take care of the legions of "Diannne721's" who spend the better part of their day polluting political blogs.
Do their fellow dark siders also harvest IP addresses of those "enemies"?
Who wants to bet?
And if they do -- then what? (see "radiation weaponry", supra?)
Posted by: scrivener50 | February 2, 2009 10:48 PM
I agree that you really should address her only as the First Lady or Mrs. Obama. Laura Bush was never simply referred to as "Bush," and reading this article I got momentarily confused, thinking that maybe the President attended too.
Posted by: nina4 | February 2, 2009 9:41 PM
I am very offended that your writers think it is ok to refer to the First Lady Michelle Obama as "Obama." When referring to the First Lady, you should address her as the First Lady or Mrs. Obama. Please be respectful, she has earned it...
Posted by: anonymous110 | February 2, 2009 9:30 PM
Michelle Obama came from my community. I feel very proud now to live on the southside of Chicago.
Dianne271 - Maybe you need some of that affirmative action cause you sure as heck can't spell.
Posted by: danson1 | February 2, 2009 9:14 PM
Michelle Obama came from my community. I feel very proud now to live on the southside of Chicago.
Dianne271 - Maybe you need some of that affirmative action cause you sure as heck can't spell.
Posted by: danson1 | February 2, 2009 9:13 PM
RADIATION WEAPONRY (aka "Directed Energy Weapons") ARE WMD AND MUST BE BANNED WORLDWIDE.
Team Obama must immediately work with GOP defenders of the Constitution to dismantle the nationwide extrajudicial punishment network...
...authoritarian bureaucrats and security/intel officers and their nationwide network of citizen vigilantes fronted by federally-funded volunteer programs.
This nationwide, Gestapo-like "multi-agency action" operation has made a mockery of the judicial system for the past eight years and has claimed many victims from all strata of society.
Crimes against humanity are being committed across the nation via the use of so-called "directed energy (radiation) weapons" which the Bush D.O.J. recently confirmed are being widely deployed to police forces nationwide.
These RADIATION weapons emit silent, pulsed bursts of various forms of radiation -- and are degrading and damaging the health of those on the receiving end as well as their operators.
This weaponry has NO PLACE in civilized society -- much less in the hands of security personnel who interact with the public. It should be BANNED -- and NOT deployed to local law enforcement with the aid, approval and funding of D.O.J.
The widespread deployment of this weaponry virtually assures its misuse. Imagine if rogue actors tried to use its silent, deadly force to induce illness or to disable our political leaders.
Perhaps they already have.
Victims of this extrajudicial punishment network also see their finances and livelihoods expropriated and destroyed by coordinated "multi-agency action" "programs of personal destruction" that deny them due process of law while degrading their lives and destroying their families.
Obama administration officials must address these abuses IMMEDIATELY, before these affronts to the Constitution destroy more American families -- and subvert the Obama presidency.
The bureaucrats and officers behind these "programs of personal destruction" remain entrenched. They cannot be co-opted or rehabilitated. They have threatened and harassed those who demand that they take down their unconstitutional programs.
These programs surely have contributed the nation's economy crisis -- and by extension, the world's.
These betrayers of the Constitution be removed from power and brought to justice.
OR (if links are corrupted):
Posted by: scrivener50 | February 2, 2009 7:59 PM
Please refer to our first lady by her correct name. Her middle name is LaVaughn. Why would the Post allow obvious attempts a slurring her to make the light of day, I'm not sure.
Posted by: micreaux | February 2, 2009 7:56 PM
"How appropriate for Michelle Shaniqua Obama. She can extol the virtues of her affirmative action education whilst trying to sound intelligent and articulate."
Posted by: Diannne721
She has more intelligence in her pinkie that YOU will ever have in your whole, bitter, jealous and angry body, poster. There's a middle name for you, too, Dianne: LOSER.
Posted by: vegasgirl1 | February 2, 2009 7:48 PM
RE: "How appropriate for Michelle Shaniqua Obama. She can extol the virtues of her affirmative action education whilst trying to sound intelligent and articulate"
Such ignorance is astounding.
Posted by: Gmull | February 2, 2009 7:40 PM
Why do you refer to her as "Obama" and not "Mrs Obama"? She's the First Lady!!
Posted by: mikecapitolhill | February 2, 2009 7:26 PM
"I am a product of your work, but don't think for a minute that I am going to send my kids to a public school - not on your life!"
Posted by: hongkongkid | February 2, 2009 6:53 PM
How much was spent in Iraq? I would rather have trillions be spent on what I see on American soil? Money was wasted in Iraq. Our tax payer money. President Obama has not discussed how he will make people accountable for trillions spent in Iraq? Anyway, if my money is going to education and not dinner at the Whitehouse, I am for it.
Education is a tool to fight terrorism. If we are to protect our inventions then let's put American education first. Let American children be at the forefront in Sciences. Let them invent something like their fore fathers who invented the car, the plane, etc. For this to happen education has to be juiced up. Look at India! China! These guys are serious in Maths and Science and most start ups in the Bay Area area are by Indians, while a bunch of American kids are working at Wal Mart. Wake up America! If this cannot be done under the Obama administration, America will be way behind.
Refer to trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) for the U.S. Department of Education http://nces.ed.gov/timss/ to see how US is trailing.
Posted by: zodwa | February 2, 2009 6:44 PM
what a fantastic first lady michelle obama is going to be -- smart, engaged, and ready to lead.
and it's especially awesome that it's gonna drive that 28% (i.e., diannne721) absolutely bonkers in the years ahead.
Posted by: mycomment | February 2, 2009 5:41 PM
She is delightful. I wonder though if the media will be even-handed and count her "uhs" and "uhms" as it counted Ms. Kennedy's "you knows."
Posted by: medogsbstfrnd | February 2, 2009 5:40 PM
Great! Education is a key to the future. Teachers and administrators need all the backup they can get.
Posted by: asoders22 | February 2, 2009 5:27 PM
How appropriate for Michelle Shaniqua Obama. She can extol the virtues of her affirmative action education whilst trying to sound intelligent and articulate.
Posted by: Diannne721 | February 2, 2009 5:22 PM
Good for Michelle Obama. Whatever one thinks of her husband, I think she will make a fine First Lady.
(And for the record, I liked Laura Bush, too.)
Posted by: vegasgirl1 | February 2, 2009 5:19 PM
The comments to this entry are closed.


text:
While perusing the shelves of a great Portland bookstore (Portland, OR really has the best used book stores in the country) I stumbled across the book Doomsday 1999 A.D. by Charles Berlitz and immediately flipped to the last chapter.
In the "apocalypse porn" genre you'll find that the final chapter is where the author either hedges his bets (maybe we won't all die, after all...) or offers an absurd possibility for the survival of mankind (let's spike foreign food aid with anti-fertility drugs!). Berlitz chooses to do a bit of both with a chapter called "The Arks of the Future."
Below is an excerpt from the final chapter of the book.
Although the idea of piloted UFOs and intelligent life in space is usually considered with a certain amount of sardonic humor, it nevertheless remains a possibility and should be considered as an added opportunity for Earth's peoples, through knowledge of its drive and methods, to develop another means of escape from our environment if or when it becomes untenable.
Our legends from an earlier world tell us of a great ship or ships which provided a refuge in far places of the earth, but perhaps after the next catastrophe Earth itself may become inimicable to humanity. Our survival plans should therefore be predicated on an intensified exploration of space; not only to find a refuge but also to expand our observation of the universe, to be able thereby to avoid or control dangers within the cosmos which may even now be drawing closer to Earth.
Previously on Paleo-Future:


text:
If skobbler's devs have one thing painted in their collective brains at the moment, I reckon it's "OpenSource for the win!" or some such motto. In the USA, skobbler, the OpenStreetMap-based turn-by-turn navigation/GPS app, is a huge win for what may well be the future of navigation apps: open source mapping. You the customer can also be the mapper, and God only knows that you know your locale better than any Samsung-style megacorp who tries to tell you that they know better. Hell, rather than waiting for the bigwigs to finally update their software, thousands of your mates on a variety of platforms are mapping the world for you.
In case you aren't in to oil spill-suckers, there is also a pedestrian/bicycle mode. Perhaps its killer feature though, is that the US version  comes with no monetary strings attached – at all. Needless to say, skobbler has been a hit in its native Germany and ruffled quite a few feathers in the process, but those feathers probably don't belong there in the first place.
skobbler GmbH, skobbler US, FREE
Screenies and more after the gap:


text:
(AP) — Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees.
Medical experts took samples from the remains of Enrico De Pedis and also took boxes of old bones from the nearby ossuary, according to a De Pedis family lawyer, as part of the investigation into whether Emanuela Orlandi may have been buried alongside him.
Orlandi was 15 when she disappeared in 1983 after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See.
De Pedis, a member of Rome's Magliana mob, was killed in 1990. His one-time girlfriend has reportedly told prosecutors that De Pedis kidnapped Orlandi, and an anonymous caller in 2005 told a call-in television show that the answer to Orlandi's disappearance lay in his tomb.
Amid a new push to resolve the case, the Vatican said last month it had no objections to opening the tomb. On Monday, Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the inspection of the De Pedis tomb was `'certainly a positive fact" aimed at carrying out `'all possible steps so the investigation could be completed.
`'The prosecutors' office can continue to count on the full collaboration of the church authorities," Lombardi said in comments to reporters.
The scene Monday outside the Sant'Apollinare basilica was hectic, with television cameras jostling for views inside the chapel and the adjacent courtyard of the Opus Dei-run Pontifical Holy Cross University, where forensic vans came and went.
An overwhelming stench filled the air as medical personnel in white pantsuits and masks mingled with priests in black clerical garb and ducked into a blue tent where samples of De Pedis' remains were believed to have been brought.
Lorenzo Radogna, a De Pedis family attorney, told reporters outside that investigators had found some 200 containers with bones near De Pedis' tomb in the ossuary, and that they would be tested in the coming days and weeks. Initially, the ANSA news agency reported the boxes had been discovered in De Pedis' casket itself but later said they were found in the nearby ossuary.
Orlandi's brother, Pietro, who was at the scene, said samples from De Pedis' body had been taken for further tests and the tomb re-closed. He said the corpse was in relatively good condition, but there was only one body – that of a male – inside the casket.
There had initially been speculation that Emanuela Orlandi's kidnapping was linked in some way to an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, which had occurred two years earlier, and the jailing of the gunman, Ali Agca.
Doubts have also been cast on whether the Vatican itself had cooperated fully with the investigation.
In 2008, Italian news reports quoted De Pedis' ex-girlfriend as telling prosecutors that Orlandi had been kidnapped by the Magliana gang on the orders of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the late U.S. prelate who had headed the Vatican bank and was linked to a huge Italian banking scandal in the 1980s. Marcinkus had always asserted his innocence in the scandal and the Vatican at the time of the allegation said the woman's claims had "extremely doubtful value."
In a lengthy statement last month, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi insisted the Holy See had done everything possible to try to resolve the case.
Pietro Orlandi said the move to exhume the tomb was a step forward in the investigation, and he hoped it showed a new willingness on the part of the Vatican to cooperate fully and show full transparency about what it knows.
"I think it's something very positive, both from the point of view of the Vatican and the prosecutors," he told reporters.
Speculation has long swirled around the location of De Pedis' tomb, since it is buried in a prominent church alongside important Catholics – an unusual final resting place for a reputed local mobster. Sant'Apollinare is right next to the elegant Piazza Navona in Rome's historic center. As the exhumation went on in the crypt a priest was solemnly celebrating Mass upstairs in Latin.
Among those in the adjacent courtyard speaking with medical personnel was the rector of the basilica, Msgr. Pedro Huidobro, who oddly enough was a coroner before being ordained a priest.
De Pedis' casket is expected to be moved to another location for reburial in the near future, Radogna said.


text:
I've got a difficult question, so let me explain. I found out a week ago from my doctor that sent me for Ultrasounds, that I have a large cyst in my right ovary and several smaller ones in my left ovary. Blood work also indicated a slightly high white blood cell count, whatever that means. However the earliest appointment I could get, due to being on government assistance, isn't until the first week of August.
However I can't help but feel there's more going on and I'm not getting anywhere because I'm not asking the doctors the right questions or something. So on that note, is there somehow a connection between these strange symptoms I've been having these past three months?
My symptoms as of now that are the most noticeable are swelling in my left hip area (kind of around the area of my hip bone, making it hard to tell that I have a bone there… I'm also 5'2 and usually98lbs, but have dropped about ten of those), along with the area feeling slightly tender when I sit, or lay on that side. It also seems to get worse when I consume food or beverages, which also makes my stomach bloat or swell making me feel full quickly and resulting in a diminished appetite.
I've also been feeling very tired lately, even though I sleep relatively well, despite the random hot flashes I get when I'm sleeping (usually I stay fairly chilly, always blamed it on bad circulation, but now I sweat at night) as well as throughout the day and I've just got a general feeling of aches all over (kind of like you do when you have the flu or something). At least once a day I'll get a stabbing pain in my lower pelvic area, but it doesn't seem anyway associated with the swelling. I've also been urinating a lot more frequently, as well as being on the border of diarrhea (for a week now). I've also noticed these last few days that my bottom lip keeps splitting, and I'm wondering if that has something to do with everything else.
I had symptoms of a UTI back in April, but it didn't end up getting treated until they returned the following month in May. In June a home screening test for UTI's sent me searching for another doctor, which I finally found the first week of July after just having severe abdominal/ pelvic pains, bloating, nausea and diarrhea. Finally I managed to obtain an ultrasound that revealed the cysts, but they said everything else looked normal.
Has anyone else had anything like this happen to them?
Recognize the risks associated with Crohn's disease.
Did you know that one in six US adults has high cholesterol?


text:
By Alan Duffy
Brought to us by the maths website Numberphile.com, this is a rather interesting look at how the stats geeks at Opta look, in minute detail, at the sport we are all obsessed with.
The video focuses on Andrés Iniesta, he of the ghostly pallor and quick feet, and his match-winning goal for Spain against the Netherlands in the 2010 World Cup final.
I must declare a particular interest in this data-filled video, as I myself am one of those Opta stats geeks. However, fortunately for the viewer, my big Irish head and penchant for needless swearing was kept well away from this video.
Enjoy the stat-gasm!


text:
Still good news for President Obama in the latest of four CBS News/New York Times polls done since April of 2009 on the question of:
Most to Blame for the Condition of the Economy
Bush 26% 28 30 33
Wall Street 25 22 29 21
Congress 11 10 12 11
Obama 8 7 4 2
All 7 7 6 7
In Minnesota, the Democratic Governor, Mark Dayton, and GOP legislators are locked in a battle over how to close the state's $5 billion budget deficit—with progressive tax hikes or with even more big budget cuts—eerily calling to mind our larger national issue.
And as the case with our national deficit, much of it is due to a former Republican executive, in this case Tim Pawlenty. Rather than seek another term as the state's governor and help fix the problems he left, Pawlenty, no doubt in a spasm of selfless patriotism, is seeking to bring his governing wisdom and fiscal responsibility to Washington, where, God knows, we don't have enough Republican experts on how to ruin the economy and undermine government.
The deadline to avoid a government shutdown in Minnesota is midnight. Tick, tock.
President Obama continues to suffer indignity after indignity at the hands of either right-wingers—Glenn Beck calling him a racist who hates white folks and Joe Wilson shouting "You lie!" at him during an address to Congress—or comedians—Jon Stewart addressing him as "dude" on The Daily Show—or journalists, like this morning when a big-time editor of Time magazine, Mark Halperin, called Obama a, uh, "dick" on Morning Joe.
MSNBC suspended Halperin, who is a regular on Joe Scarborough's program and an analyst for the network. And Halperin apologized.
I was watching the event and I must say that I was personally offended by the fact that it was part of his wrongheaded "analysis" of yesterday's press conference. Halperin, who is paid handsomely to offer insightful critiques of such things, was dead wrong about Obama's performance.
The Time editor thought the President should not have been so rough on those mistreated Republicans and should have tried to understand John Boehner's inability to get the votes to pass a budget deal that included tax increases and not have acted so, well, so dick-like by insisting that at least some (but not nearly enough) reality be part of the debate.
Halperin's stunningly bad analysis was at least as offensive as the D word.
And speaking of dicks and MSNBC, what's up with former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann? First he leaves MSNBC and begins another version of "Countdown" on Al Gore's Current TV network, competing with Lawrence O'Donnell, who occupies Olbermann's old spot on MSNBC with a show called The Last Word.
By the way, O'Donnell's program is in many ways better than Olbermann's original show. O'Donnell is able to get opposition political guests on, which makes for entertaining television, and his "Rewrite" segment is often the best single segment on any cable news show. And O'Donnell has worked in Congress, six years as an aid and senior advisor to Daniel Patrick Moynihan and a couple of years as the staff director of the Senate Finance Committee, maybe the most powerful committee in Congress.
In any case, Olbermann first tried to run his new show a little past the hour so as to cut into his former colleague Rachel Maddow's show, but was duly criticized by his "fans," and then apologized and pulled back to ending on the hour. Then on Tuesday Olbermann tweeted (God, I hate that word and that method of communication) the latest ratings for O'Donnell, which dropped 12% in correlation with the debut of Olbermann's new show (whose viewership is less than half of O'Donnell's).
Jeeze, I used to like Olbermann, but this kind of behavior is so petty and so unnecessary. With all the right-wing nuttery out there, one would think Olbermann would spend every single minute of his time taking care of that business rather than trying to embarrass fellow liberals.
Finally, Glenn Beck's last show is tonight, in case you want to find out how the world ends. After many episodes of leading us to believe that our demise is near, surely tonight we will have the demented denouement.
Prediction: There will be plenty of references to his "new" gig away from Fox, just in case Obama doesn't destroy the country anytime soon.


text:
Weather Blog: July chill
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! A flip in the weather has many reaching for sweatshirts, light jackets, and a blanket or two. Yes it's still July but temperatures are feeling a little more like September. In today's blog we discuss below average temperatures and when readings may actually get even cooler!
Let's start with a photo from Wednesday morning. I was live along the Fox river in Waukesha for WISN 12 News this Morning from 4:30-7am. I brought along the big station thermometer and it displayed 50 degrees just after sunrise.
A few locations including Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, and Burlington dipped into the 40s overnight. Average high/low for Milwaukee is now 80/64.
Temperatures will stay below average through Thursday with highs in the low to mid 70s, and lows in the 50s to near 60.
By late Thursday the focus will shift to another cold front approaching the area. This should send a decent chance of showers and thunderstorms into southeastern Wisconsin. The WPC(Weather Prediction Center) surface forecast map valid Thursday at 7pm is shown below. The green shaded areas represents the general area for showers and thunderstorms. The key feature is the cold front pushing through Minnesota.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms will sweep across Wisconsin Thursday night and Friday. Behind the cold front, another push of cool/chilly weather arrives for the weekend.
The GFS temperature forecast map below is valid at 1pm Saturday. There is a chance that some locations will not make it out of the 60s for highs to start the weekend!
With highs in the 60s to low/mid 70s this coming weekend expect lows to drop to the 50s along the lake and 40s to near 50 inland. If you are camping this weekend the fire will feel great along with an extra blanket inside your tent!
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News from 4:30-7am, and at 5, 6, & 10pm. Follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather for updates throughout the day.
Have a great day!
Jeremy Nelson


text:
On Friday, June 24, Rhizome is presenting new projects by Jeremy Bailey and Antoine Catala as part of the New Silent Series. This post elaborates some of the ideas around the event.
The future never comes looking like it used to. Science fiction's universal hallmark of technological advancement was the videophone. While you can buy a device as slick as a Gene Roddenberry prop, most people make video calls with the same thing they do a thousand other things with, using a streamlined version of the computer-camera-modem combo that Jennifer Ringley set up in her dorm room in 1996. Her site JenniCam (now archived) did not stream a live feed of her life. It updated still images— black-and-white, at first— every three minutes. Traffic leapt whenever word spread that Ringley was undressing, or having sex with her boyfriend. But JenniCam was never meant to be an illicit site. As Ringley explained, she was broadcasting everyday life, and in everyday life sex and nudity happen. Her webcam was like a piece of furniture, a mirror that blankly took in the image of the room it faced. It was connected to the line of the telephone, a device that philosopher Avital Ronnell has described as a superhumanizing prosthesis, a machine that empowers the ear and voice to operate across great distances. The webcam's mirror/telephone hybrid— as used by JenniCam and its lifecasting progeny, from Ustream.tv to Chatroulette— is a messy sort of videophone that captures a reflection at its physical location and disperses it to whatever channel that switches the packets.
Rosalind Krauss called video "the aesthetics of narcissism." Her 1976 essay of that name describes Vito Acconci's Centers (1971) as a reflection on art's indexical function: he looks in a television monitor as a mirror and points at himself. One of her other examples was Richard Serra's Boomerang (1974), which locks Nancy Holt in a prison of feedback. She speaks and listens to her own words in a "collapsed present." "[V]ideo's real medium," Krauss writes, "is a psychological situation, the very terms of which are to withdraw attention from an external object— an Other— and invest it in the Self." What do her words mean thirty years later, when video, thanks to webcams, has become part of everyday life as a telecom device? Marisa Olson's remake of Boomerang offers an easy starting point. The webpage juxtaposes a video of Olson listening to and repeating the text of Boomerang with a copy of the old video that she saved on her YouTube account. Serra's tightly constructed frame excludes everything but Holt's face and the audio apparatus. Olson (who did the tasks of both Serra and Holt: the tech set-up and the on-screen performance) lets her webcam show her studio; we can see a doorway, artworks, a bookshelf, the glare of sunlight on a framed print. For Olson, the real "frame" isn't the field of her webcam's lens but the window of the browser, which subsumes both the art-historical past and the webcam's collapsed present in the empty space of default whiteness. She's not only creating a reflection of her own image, but connecting it to an artifact of another place and time by echoing its call.
Krauss deepens the psychoanalytic thrust of her argument by citing Lacan's reading of psychotherapy from The Language of the Self: the patient speaks a monologue to his silent therapist, and in the void of the therapist's silence he sees his selfhood as a projected object. Ryder Ripps connects that situation to life online in Internet Therapy, an audio recording of Ripps telling his therapist of the insecurity he has about making a career of web projects. "I'm putting all my eggs in one basket," he says, "and it's a basket with no end." He prompts his therapist to respond, and the older man gives voice to conventional opinion, parroting the stereotypes at the heart of Ripps' anxiety. The therapist isn't the silent listener described by Lacan, but part of a feedback loop. For his part, Ripps breaks therapy taboo by secretly recording the conversation. In the disrupted transaction, the internet audience, not the therapist, becomes the silent listener, its presence anticipated by the act of recording. And with the recording, Ripps performs the subject of his therapy session: the projection of his selfhood in the internet's open space.
There's no video in Internet Therapy. The webcam creates an intensely visual expression of the construction of identity online, but the "psychological situation" of it, to use Krauss' term, can be expressed in other ways. Eva and Franco Mattes anticipated lifecasting with Life Sharing, an anagram of "file sharing" that they invented to name a three-year project during which they made all the data in their personal computers available online. That was 2000 to 2003. A few years later, YouTube launched, Apple started manufacturing computers with built-in cameras, and Skype subscriptions began to rapidly increase. Justin.tv appeared. "vlogging" was coined. In the 1990s net artists expressed concern with the potential for fabricating alternate identities. But as social media's popularity rose and access to webcams got easier, a more relevant topic was the everyday presentation of self, and the noise added to it by the medium's technology.
In 2006, Guthrie Lonergan collected introduction videos that kids made to introduce themselves on MySpace. By severing them from their social-media destination and showing them as a playlist on YouTube, the utility site hosting them, Lonergan made their sameness apparent. "No matter how much users try to 'express' their 'true' selves, each becomes just one more piece of information, one more lonely avatar," Gene McHugh wrote. "And in the end, the avatar doesn't express itself—MySpace does." If Vito Acconci was playing at Narcissus, these MySpace users are part Echo, doomed to repeat fragments of transmissions they've received. There's something of that in the muteness of VVebcam (2007), where Petra Cortright sits in front of her computer, wearing a blank expression that mirrors the indifference of the camera's lens. Her head bobs slightly to the coolly hollow beats of a machine-generated techno track as she pastes the screen with animated images, copied from somewhere else.
Jeremy Bailey's webcam works of the last five years posed similar questions about technology's limits. His exaggerated on-screen persona — "I'm Jeremy Bailey, the famous new media artist!" — heralded new art forms that would transcend the human body with computers. He imagined the dance of the future and the theater of the future. But in the gap between gushing words and goofy visuals, viewers could see how the prosthetically enhanced arts were poorer than their analogue predecessors. More recently, however, Bailey has moved toward an exploration of vulnerability, asking not what technology obscures or deletes, but what it can expose. He thinks of programming as a kind of drawing, and drawing— as the cliché of art criticism has it— is the most expressive and open of mediums, a record of the immediate contact between the artist's body and the surface he's working with. Thought-controlled computing, a technology provided to him by the Canadian company Interaxon, allows him to draw on the screen with a "brush" controlled by the computer's reading of how focused or relaxed his mind is. Telecom devices may be prostheses, enabling the body to expand its activity in new directions, but thought-controlled computing lets a machine take on the human function of recognizing the emotional state of the other. It suggests an ambiguous future for communication, one that can look especially raw in a live performance, where Bailey's own mental state hinges on the laughter and silence of the audience before him.
Two years ago, Antoine Catala made a series of sculptures by painting on the screens of television sets and letting them run. He juxtaposed a naive gesture to a piece of mass-produced technology and its professionally produced broadcasts. Lifecasting drew his interest because, like television, it can serve as a kind of moving wallpaper, but it incorporates naive gestures within the content on the screen, both in the lifecaster's performance and her viewers' running commentary in the adjacent chat box. The looping communication— the presentation of a persona, the anonymous commentary responding to it, and the persona's self-adjustment in response to the response— led Catala to think more deeply about his own presentation of self online and perceptions of him based on the data available, and how to communicate his observations through drawings and performance. Bailey is thinking about what can and can't be shown and shared. Catala's interests lie in what is visible, and teasing out the nature of reactions to it. Both artists are approaching the psychological state of the webcam: creating a reflection of the self, and generating human feedback by offering that reflection as a beacon for multiple, unknown others.


text:
Happy Teachers Day
Date & Time of Virtual learning classes for Grade VIII to III.
Dear Parents,
- for grade 8 ICSE will be from 10.30am to 11am ,
- for grade 8 State it will be from 11.10am to 11.40 am,
- for grade 7 ICSE will be from 11.50am to 12.20pm,
- for grade 6 ICSE it will be from 12.30pm to 1 pm,
- for grade 5 it will be from 1.10pm to 1.40 pm ,
- for grade 4 will be from 1.50pm to 2.20pm and
- for grade 3 will be from 2.30pm to 3 pm,
Upcoming Events
Prep to Grade VII – Worksheets & Assignments are sent to through PUPIL POD. Please login and complete.
Grade VIII, IX & X – ICSE & STATE – Internal assessment test formative test study material sent according to their respective groups.
Please collect books- according to the dates sent through SMS. The dates are extended for another week.
Virtual teaching of Recorded / Live VIDEO will start soon (in JUNE)
Important Announcement
Dear Parents,Greetings from the Chairman, Secretary and Staff. Lockdown during COVID-19 CREATED STAY SAFE AT HOME, BUT BE ACTIVE.1. Sudden closing down of all academic activities from 4th March,2020.2. Declaration of results "All students from Pre-Primary to Grade 7 promoted".3. Question papers sent through Pupil Pod(online), by creating Id's for all students.4. Online assignments and workshops and assessment tests for high school Grade 9 and 10 State board.5. Virtual learning program assignments , one on one interactive sessions, for Grdae 10 ICSE and State board students.6. Assignments, worksheets and videos for shining stars and Grade 1 to 7 students.7. Stay tuned for upcoming events.8. Provision for online payment of fees or by usual manual method.9. Information regarding books will be intimated soon.Posted by Bangalore International Public School on Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Dear parents ,
we are sure all of you along with your family are keeping good health and are safe .
We would like our students to spend the holidays productively. our teachers are posting worksheets periodically across all subjects on pupil pod app and we assure it is keeping them engaged .
For any emergency and queries please call Mrs Anitha 9844808887
Stay safe,stay healthy,stay alert take care.
Regards,management and principal BIPS


text:
We always look for ways to combine color and bring timeless pieces to life. Samson is a perfect example of that principal.
How much do you charge for shipping?
Great question! We don't charge for shipping.
How long until my product arrives?
Your box will arrive with 4-5 business days after your order.
My package was misplaced by the carrier, what should I do?
Oh man! Shoot us an email and we'll investigate this issue further.
What is your return policy?
Great question! You can return your glasses 60 days after receiving them.
Do you charge for returns?
Nope! We take care of all shipping cost. It is completely free to return!
When can I get my money back after a return?
4-5 business days.
Why so chill?
We're "so chill" because we know you'll love the shades..


text:
This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
AppSecLatam2011 chapters workshop agenda
Meeting Minutes from Latin America Chapters Workshop
General Information
As part of AppSec Latin America 2011, on Wednesday, October 5,2011 at 13:30h-16:30h, the Global Chapter Committee is organizing a chapter leader workshop for all the chapter leaders that attend the conference. Please note that this Workshop will take place on the day before the Conference starts.
Discussion topics include:
- How to improve the current Chapter Leader Handbook?
- How to start and support new chapters within Latin America?
- How to support inactive chapters within Latin America?
- What Governance model is required for OWASP chapters?
- How can the Global Chapters Committee facilitate the Latin American chapters?
- ...
Funding to Attend Workshop
If you need financial assistance to attend the Chapter Leader Workshop at AppSec Latin America, please submit a request to Tin Zaw and Sarah Baso by August 22, 2011.
Funding for your attendance to the workshop should be worked out in the following order.
- Ask your employer to fund your trip to AppSec USA conference.
- Utilize your chapter funds.
- Ask the chapter committee for funding assistance.
While we wish we could fund every chapter leader, due to the limited amount of budget allocated for this event, we may not be able to fund 100% to all the requests. After August 22, we will make funding decision in a fair and transparent manner. When you apply for funding, please highlight your past contributions to OWASP and your future plans for the local chapter and OWASP.
Proposed agenda (open for discussion):
|Location - TBA
|13:30 - 13:45
|Welcome and Introductions
|13:45 - 14:30
| Handling chapter finances
Introduction & moderation: Sarah Baso, Participation: All
Current chapter handbook section to be elaborated.
|14:30 - 14:45
|Coffee Break
|14:45 - 15:30
| Top 10 advice for new and veteran chapter leaders
Introduction & moderation: Sarah Baso, Participation: All
Create list upfront and add action, impact and required support from the Chapters Committee.
|15:30 - 15:40
|15:40 - 16:25
| How to cross-pollinate success between Latin American?
Introduction & moderation: Sarah Baso, Participation: All
Look for good pollinator mechanisms and define 7 goals to be accomplished by AppSec Latin America 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
If you plan to attend, please fill in your name and chapter below:
- Sarah Baso (Global Chapters Committee Administrator)
- Magno Rodrigues (OWASP Paraiba Chapter Leader)
- Mauro Flores, Chapter Leader Uruguay
- Michael Hidalgo Fallas, Chapter Leader Costa Rica
- Leonardo F. Buonsanti de Andrade (OWASP São Paulo Chapter Leader)
- Cassio Goldschmidt, OWASP Los Angeles, Chapter Founder and Board Member
- Ramiro Pulgar, Chapter Leader Ecuador
- Tom Brennan, NJ/NYC Chapter Leader / International Board of Directors
Remote Participation
- Join meeting, Wednesday, October 05, 2011 at 4:30 PM GMT/UTC (the meeting will be held at 1:30pm local time in Porto Alegre).
- Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
Dial +1 (630) 869-1013
Access Code: 196-835-662
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 196-835-662
Contact Sarah Baso if you are interested in participating remotely.
Chapters Workshop at AppSec EU & USA
AppSecEU 2011 chapters workshop agenda and Meeting Minutes
AppSec USA 2011 chapters workshop agenda and Meeting Minutes
Contact Sarah Baso.


text: welcome to freepuzzlegames.org, we have collected a lot of puzzle games, racing games, shooting games, snake games, doctor games and more. In sports category of online games, user can find flash games featuring soccer, football, tennis, table tennis, hockey and cricket, etc.Copyright © 2015-2019 FreePuzzleGames.org All rights reserved. Privacy Policy


text:
I can hear all the Olly users going Arrrrgggghh!!!!
I am having severe brain lock. I fired up softice because I want to trace a file creation through kernel mode to see if I can get access to where the system accesses the NTFS MFT structure on disk. When I set a bpx on creatfileA and go to double click my file, createfile fires off on everything....of course. So, I need to use an IF statement in my BPX expression.
If I look at createfileA in kernel32, I see:
PUSH DWORD PTR [EBP+hTemplateFile]
PUSH DWORD PTR [EBP+dwFlagsAndAtrributes]
PUSH DWORD PTR [EBP+dwCreationDisposition]
PUSH DWORD PTR [EBP+lpSecurityAttributes]
PUSH DWORD PTR [EBP+dwSharedMode]
PUSH DWORD PTR [EBP+dwDesiredAccess]
CALL _CreateFileW@28
[EAX+04] points to the drive, path and filename of the file I want to open.
How can I enter that as a BPX in softice so createfile will only go off when I activate my file?
I am thinking BPX creatfilew IF [EAX+04] = 'c:\(path)\(file)'
I get that flagged as an invalid expression.
Extra questions:
1)should createfile look on the disk via the NTFS MFT table to find the file...I think it should.
2)which form of createfile do I use? The call that uses the parameters above is createfileW but it has that @28 attached.


text:
.,..but at some point you just have to cut a guy who is not doing his job. McCarthy and everyone else including Wayne Larrivee for some reason, go way out of their way to talk about Crosby being mentally strong – giving him votes of confidence no matter what he does. But right now, he is in the midst of an unreal slump (55% on the season) – AND HISTORICALLY HE JUST HASN'T BEEN VERY GOOD (77% career average). He is hurting this team right now and we need to look at some other options.
I know McCarthy is trying a 'pausitive' psychology thing with Crosby…
3 Responses to "I know McCarthy is trying a 'pausitive' psychology thing with Crosby…"
56coop Says:
November 25, 2012 at 8:08 pm |
2 d plAyers & he,s behind both of them.. ridiculous
Dave in Tucson Says:
November 25, 2012 at 8:11 pm |
Why even try a FG from that far out?
NiceTry Says:
November 25, 2012 at 8:29 pm |
Crosby should be the MVP of the rest of the league. God he stinks.


text:
My Kitchen Rules' genial judges Manu Fieldel and Pete Evans.Channel Ten turned up the heat this year by launching Masterchef: The Professionals almost a month before the start of official ratings.
Channel Seven responded with My Kitchen Rules and, on its first outing at least, the four-year-old reality cooking competition lived up to its name, with 1.38 million tuning in.
In a highly competitive night, it only narrowly beat Channel Nine's coverage of the Australia v Sri Lanka cricket clash, which drew 1.37 million viewers.
Ten's Masterchef: The Professionals, facing a perfect storm of intense competition and the damage Ten is still carrying from a brutal 2012 ratings year, was battered down to 892,000 viewers.
Seven will be pleased with the result: 1.38 million is a solid number given the ratings year has not yet begun, and audience habits were disrupted last night because of news coverage of the Queensland floods.
As a result, even My Kitchen Rules only managed to grab the third rung on the rankings. Nine and Seven's news services took the top two, with 1.57 million watching Nine News and 1.53 million watching Seven News.
The official ratings year begins on Sunday, February 10.
While My Kitchen Rules can legitimately claim to be a hit show, its success came a little later in its life. The first two seasons were relatively modest affairs in ratings terms.
The show's first season averaged audiences of about 1.2 to 1.3 million nationally. The second season improved those numbers slightly.
It was the third season in which the series "broke out" and became a bona fide juggernaut, delivering weekly audiences of about 1.7 million. A handful of programs in that series hit 2 million viewers.
The third season finale drew a national audience of 2.198 million, and 2.812 million viewers for the announcement of the winner.
For ratings purposes, networks usually code the final segment of large-scale reality competitions separately to maximise their performance in the program rankings.
Looking to the longer term, Seven will be hoping MKR can build its numbers closer to 1.5 million nightly, lest the market sees the show's third season as the exception to its overall performance, rather than the rule.
My Kitchen Rules pits teams of two against each other, tasked with transforming their homes into "instant restaurants" for a single night.
The prepared meal is then judged by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel, and a series of guest judges.
For the show's fourth season, chef Colin Fassnidge joins the show's three returning guest judges, Guy Grossi, Karen Martini and Liz Egan.
The show will also introduce "blind taste testing", a gimmick almost certainly borrowed from another titanic reality franchise, The Voice, which uses "blind auditions" to enormous effect in its early rounds.
The winning team takes home a prize of $250,000.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


text:
A "very large storm sewer' running under Calgary and a lengthy diversion ditch near High River are key components of a flood-proofing package proposed to prevent a repeat of June's disaster.
The Alberta government will make a decision "as soon as possible" on the proposal from its flood mitigation panel that could cost up to $830 million, says the official in charge of the province's flood reconstruction.
But Andre Corbould said the province must evaluate both the potential impact and technical feasibility of the plan made public Friday at Alberta's flood mitigation conference.
"Our job now ... is to take those ideas and concepts and turn them into hard engineering that we can then put in front of the government for decisions," said Corbould, chief assistant deputy minister of the province's flood recovery task force.
In an interview, Corbould noted the government also has a score of other proposals from municipalities for infrastructure projects aimed at preventing and minimizing future floods.
But the flood mitigation panel's recommendations are the first indication since the disaster of how the government may deal with future inundations.
Richard Lindseth, a member of the government's three-person mitigation panel, told the symposium a package of five berms and two water diversion projects on the Elbow and Highwood river systems could be completed in two to three years.
"We think that this is a crucial part — but not the only part — of an Alberta flood mitigation system," the Calgary architect said in his presentation.
"It's achievable and it's achievable in an expedited time frame."
The panel — chaired by veteran energy executive Allan Markin — recommends the province build two dry pond detention berms at the mountain headwaters of the Elbow River and one at the headwaters of the Highwood River.
Two more should also be built in the foothills on the Highwood and Sheep rivers.
The dry berms are dam-like structures overtop a conduit in a stream. They are intended to maintain the regular stream flow, while allowing for water to be stored at a time of heavy rainfall or snowmelt.
The total cost of the berms would be between $370 million and $430 million.
Lindseth said the government should also construct two water diversion projects at a cost between $290 million and $400 million that will "provide the extra margin of safety that we feel should be inherent in any system we propose."
The panel says High River should have an overland bypass similar to Manitoba's Red River Floodway.
The proposed Calgary diversion project, in contrast, would essentially be "a very large storm sewer," said Lindseth.
A conduit would travel underground from the western end of the Glenmore reservoir in alignment with 58th Avenue, bypassing the Elbow River valley and depositing the water in the Bow River.
Lindseth said the panel's priority was the Elbow/Highwood corridor, but it is now turning its attention to potential mitigation projects on the Bow River.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi said some of the mitigation measures, such as the underground spillway, "almost sound like science fiction." The expense of the projects mean that governments have to weigh heavily whether the infrastructure costs outweigh the potential risk of future disasters, he said.
But Nenshi said projects such as retention berms in the mountains are "no-brainers."
"The mitigation efforts within the city of Calgary are a bit more complicated and we need to think hard about doing them," said Nenshi.
"But if we can figure out the right way to do it, if we can figure out ways to share the capital cost ... then we should do it."
The province estimates the cost of this year's flooding at approximately $6 billion, with the government on the hook for about $4 billion. The flood, which forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 Albertans, is the worst natural disaster in provincial history.
Premier Alison Redford — who kicked off the symposium but left before Lindseth's presentation — said it was too soon to say how much the government will ultimately spend on mitigation measures, but dams and berms will be built.
A continuing refrain from government representatives Friday was the province must ensure there are "layers of readiness" that include flood-proofing homes, community mitigation projects and large-scale regional infrastructure.
"There is no one solution, no magic bullet," Redford told the audience of about 500 people.
"The most important part of our recovery work is mitigation, making sure we're ready for the next time — because we know there will be a next time."
Corbould said improving flood forecasting and warning systems and better land use planning are part of the government's strategy.
Scott Edelman, a vice-president with the global technical and management firm AECOM, said the province needs to be prepared since it is only going to experience more floods in the future because of climate change and population growth.
Alberta's flood plains will likely grow 30 to 50 per cent in size by 2050 as more people come to the province.
"Just think of that ... your flood plains are getting bigger," he said.
With files from Chris Varcoe and Jason Markusoff, Calgary Herald.


text:
If you recall, all the way back at the beginning of last year, India's Jet Airways helped celebrate the release of the Lumia 800 in India by draping many of their planes in Nokia advertisements.
They have since followed up with a fantastic app for Windows Phone 7.X and 8, which came out at the beginning of May. The Jet Airways app covers you from booking, to flight status to rewards.
We may have missed it at the beginning of the month, but here's your chance to play catchup with us!
This full-featured app, which was developed in association with Nokia, is India's first native airline app of its kind for any mobile platform.
"This will be India's first NATIVE app for an airline on any mobile platform which will help travelers to access information and book tickets seamlessly. Nokia and Jet Airways have come together to help make travel planning convenient, simple and smart. Today a smartphone is intrinsic to the way we live and we believe this is a step towards creating pioneering travel apps for the airline industry", said Gerard Rego, Director Developer Experience, Nokia India.
Features include:
- Book Flights - Pay securely using your credit card. Also Pin your booked itinerary as a Tile on your phone
- JetPrivilege Loyalty Program– Enroll or Access your JetPrivilege Account on the go
- Flight Status - Check real-time flights status by searching with your flight number, airport or route
- Flight Status Notification – Register for your flight status and get notified on any updates
- Get updates on the latest News and Special Offers
- Feedback - Share your experience on our services.
You can download it for free here.
Source: AviationPros
We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more.
Review: Razer Huntsman Mini is a 60 percent mighty gaming keyboard
While full-size and so-called TKL keyboards are the most popular choices, the new 60 percent option is catching on for gamers and those who want a clean home desktop experience. The Razer Huntsman Mini brings all the power of the popular Huntsman TE keyboard in a smaller, more travel-friendly form factor. Toss in some nice Doubleshot PBT keycaps and optical switches, and you have a tiny...
Watch Surface Duo get ripped apart, all to get at its hinge
We've seen the Surface Duo delicately torn down by iFixit, but now it's time for a much messier teardown. YouTuber JerryRigEverything has ripped into Duo to get at its hinge, and it turns out it's a surprisingly simple setup.
Power or agility? We compare Dell's XPS 15 with LG's gram 15.
These two laptops might share a similar footprint, but they're intended for two very different types of user. We break things down to help you get a clear idea of which PC is the better buy for your needs.
Make the most of your Surface Pen and Slim Pen with these awesome apps
To really maximize the ability of the Surface Pen and Slim Pen, there are some essential apps you should check out. We've rounded up the best right here for a variety of purposes.


text:
Parent Directory | Revision Log
|Links to HEAD:
|(view) (download) (as text) (annotate)
darn typos
remove depgraph class add debugging code to get_deps()
modify get_deps() to get deptree for each package and merge into final list src/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py: combine code for GRP/compile in install_packages() into one block
call runtimedeps.py with python
remove calls to portage module
src/GLIPortage.py: use separate script for GRP deps src/runtimedeps.py: initial commit
flipped around a few function args
move some of portage function from GLIAT src/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py: revamp install_packages() for new GLIPortage
src/GLIPortage.py: initial commit
This form allows you to request diffs between any two revisions of this file. For each of the two "sides" of the diff, enter a numeric revision.
|ViewVC Help
|Powered by ViewVC 1.1.20


text:
Our Process
1. Fill It Out
Fill out the preliminary online order form. The main goal of this form is to determine an estimate of how many colors, sides, and the number of apparel items you would like to purchase. The information contained in this form is sent directly to our sales manager and processed. Our Sales Manager will contact you within one business day.
2.Get An Estimate
Receive a price estimate. Our Sales Manager develops a price estimate based on the information provided by the online order form.
3. Work With Our Designer
Our Sales Manager will connect you with a member from the design team. Our designers can create brand new designs, improve old ones, or turn your ideas into art. Clubs and groups affiliated with CSB/SJU need approval by Student Activities in order for the T-Spot to print the design. More information.
4. Place Your Order
After the customer approves the final design, a final estimate is given, the order is officially placed and sent into our shop for printing. **
5. Get Your Apparel
Once the order is completed, our Sales Manager will contact you to deliver your newly created apparel. Payment information will simultaneously occur with delivery process. Pay with cash, check, or budget number.


text:
Northwest Folklife brings together thousands of people and artists and engages year-round performance collaborations. One of those collaborations is resulting in a new folk genre. For the 2012 OctoberArts Crush celebration, Northwest Folklife is working with the Seattle Storytellers Guild and the Seattle Labor Chorus to weave stories and songs into "A Revolution of Hope," a love story that needs amnesty.
Seattle Storytellers Guild member Kathya Alexander created "A Revolution of Hope" in time to add an immigration theme to Columbus Day. Playwright and actress herself, Alexander showcases teller's narrative skills and the chorus' musical talents in this two-hour premier work. A former Hedgebrook writer and regular writer/teller at Auntmama's Storycorner, Alexander is also the author of "Black to My Roots," " David and Jonathan," and "Angel in the Outhouse."
Alexander uses a café (think Borracchini's Bakery on Rainier Avenue), as the setting for a modern day love story between young immigrants. The girl has legal status in America, the boy does not and Papa is steaming. This is the intersection of then and now as history comes to life. The show features new stories about The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire, Seattle's deportation of Filipinos and work in the cotton fields.
Nancy Calos (from Hiroshima to Hope, Trusted Advocates Program) directs the action while Janet Stecher (Rebel Voices, SLC cofounder) conducts the hand clapping, toe tapping and sometimes heart wrenching music.
Northwest Folklife sponsors "A Revolution of Hope" in hopes the creation develops into an original folk opera in time for the Northwest Folklife Festival in 2013. Come see how it all begins and support new art forms in Seattle. Talk back session with audience on immigration issues will follow the performance. Ten dollar donations asked at the door and no one will be turned away. Accessible physical space.